Intranet Global Forum NYC 2015

8:45–9:00am

Welcome and Introductions

Lee Hornick, Honorary Chair of Forum (USA)

9:00–12:00pm

Social content management: managing content in the social intranet

12:00–1pm

Networking Lunch (catered)

1:00–4:30pm

A business, corporate communications approach to social business

Shel Holtz

Shel Holtz has written numerous books on social media. He counsels clients on the adoption and use of social and digital media and is a long-time blogger and co-host of the first and longest-running communication-focused podcast, For Immediate Release.

4:30–6:00pm

Hosted Cocktail Reception

8:45–9:00am

Welcome and Introductions

Lee Hornick, Honorary Chair of Forum (USA)

9:00–10:00am

Session A: The Unisys Social Intranet

Speaker: Gloria Burke, Chief Knowledge Officer, Unisys

Gloria Burke

Gloria Burke is Chief Knowledge Officer of Unisys and is responsible for the development of the company's Enterprise Social Business Strategy and its supporting social culture adoption and employee engagement initiatives. In addition, she is responsible for the company's collaborative intranet and extranet environments as well as  knowledge management practices and processes.  She serves as chairperson of the company's Knowledge & Collaboration Stakeholders Council and Intranet Steering Committees. Recently Gloria was named by Information Week Magazine as #2 of the Top Ten Social Business Leaders of 2013, and was also recognized in this list in 2012.

10:00am-11:00am

Session B: The Changing Role of Communications in a Social World, BT

Speaker: Richard Dennison, Intranet & Channel Strategy Mgr., BT

BT began introducing social media tools onto its intranet around 9 years ago. Since that time both the organization and its intranet have changed beyond recognition. Richard Dennison will share his experiences of the changes the intranet has undergone during that time and how it looks and feels today. He will also describe the challenges these changes have forced upon the internal communications community and how they are responding to remain effective in the new social organization.

Richard Dennison

Richard Dennison is the intranet & channel strategy manager at BT, one of the world’s leading communication services providers. He has unique experience of deploying social tools in a corporate context and is a thought leader in the use of social technologies for improved communication and collaboration within the enterprise.

He blogs at: http://richarddennison.wordpress.com
and tweets at: @RichardDennison.

11:00–11:15am

Networking Break

11:15-12:00pm

Session C: Social Intranet Case Study

Speaker: Kevin Winterfield, Enterprise Social Strategy, Influencer Engagement Manager, IBM

Kevin Winterfield

Kevin Winterfield is an Enterprise Social & Digital Strategist and Influencer Engagement Manager at IBM’s corporate headquarters in Armonk, NY. He is responsible for designing, developing and implementing digital media and social influencing models and governance guidelines for brands and individuals in social spaces. He has worked on some of IBM’s biggest and most successful social media projects, including IBM Watson, Smarter Planet, IBM Centennial, Big Data & Analytics, and Social Business. Prior to joining the corporate team, Kevin worked as the social media lead in IBM Research, where he developed one of the first successful social eco-systems at IBM. And before that, he was in charge of community development for IBM’s 40,000+ software developers located in labs around the world. His career at IBM spans the disciplines of software development, finance, marketing and communications. He is also an avid cyclist, which led him to co-found the popular Low-Key Hillclimb Series in the San Francisco Bay Area which raises money for Cancer research. He dabbles in film production, having produced nine independent films through his Nine@Night digital production company and helped start the internet movie and community site, IFILM.com, a precursor to YouTube. And he enjoys trying to act and play music too.

12:00–1:00pm

Networking Lunch (catered)

1:00- 1:45pm

Session D: Social Intranet Expert Panel

With intranet experts Toby Ward, Shel Holtz, Gloria Burke (Unisys),Vishal Agnihotri (Head of Knowledge of EY’s elite Americas Financial Services business unit) and Michael Rudnick (Logical Design Solutions).

The panel of experts discuss the social intranet and field audience questions on problems and challenges that audience members may be encountering on their respective intranets. It's the free consulting portion of the agenda!

Vishal Agnihotri is the Head of Knowledge of EY’s elite Americas Financial Services business unit, a practice of 6,500 professionals. Vishal heads a group that catalyzes the practice’s successful pursuit of business opportunities, speed to market and overall competitiveness through the use of enabling technologies and knowledge resources. Her group also supports the research and analysis needs and the content management strategy of the practice, while raising awareness around current knowledge sharing practices. She is currently leading her practice through a large exciting migration from a legacy platform to a cloud-based SharePoint 2013 platform, that presents a new set of collaboration, content management and community building features. Prior to EY, Vishal led the global implementation and adoption of an enterprise social tool and the external client-facing collaboration platform in KPMG.

1:45-2:30pm

Session E: Case Study: Pfizer

John Santoro, Senior Director, Leadership Communications, Pfizer

2:30–2:45pm

Networking Break

2:45–3:30pm

Session F: Case Study: Cisco Systems Inc.

Speaker: Todd West, Sr. Manager of IT in the department that supports Cisco’s Global Marketing and Corporate Communications.

Todd West

3:30–4:15pm

Session G: Intranet Innovation: Power Hangouts for Internal Collaboration

Speaker:B.L. Ochman, CEO, Maximum Plus Events

B.L. Ochman

4:15–5:00pm

Session H:  Internal Communications Online + Offline

Speaker: Shel Holtz, Principal, Holtz Communications + Technology

Shel Holtz

Shel Holtz has written numerous books on social media. He counsels clients on the adoption and use of social and digital media and is a long-time blogger and co-host of the first and longest-running communication-focused podcast, For Immediate Release.